Here's a little tip for all the Facebooking football players out there: It's never a good idea to send trash talk to an upcoming opponent, especially when that opponent is the three-time defending champions.

It was pretty obvious that Friday's Region 8-AAA title victory for Gainesville was especially sweet. Not many people were going to bet money when the season started that the Red Elephants would be the ones hoisting the region title trophy like they did.

Before the football season even started, Flowery Branch was written off and given the "rebuilding year" label, despite reaching the Class AAA state semifinals last year and the finals in 2008. Not only did the Falcons lose all their top playmakers from 2009 to either graduation or transfer, they were moving up a classification and into Region 8-AAAA, headed by Apalachee, Clarke Central and Rockdale County.